Resident charged with killing 2 at Maryland senior community

CAPITOL HEIGHTS, Md. – Maryland constabulary announced first-degree execution charges connected Saturday against a nonmigratory of a elder surviving assemblage who fatally changeable 2 unit members wrong the installation a time earlier.

Roy Batson, 63, remains successful custody connected a no-bond status, Prince George's County constabulary said successful a quality release.

Batson, of Capitol Heights, is accused of sidesplitting 46-year-old Mackeda Evans, of Temple Hills, and 46-year-old Michelle Boateng, of Capitol Heights, connected Friday astatine the Gateway Village elder surviving community successful Capitol Heights, conscionable extracurricular of Washington. Boateng worked and lived astatine the complex, constabulary said.

The preliminary probe recovered that Batson had confronted Evans connected Friday greeting astir a anterior quality betwixt the 2 successful October implicit a usurpation notice, constabulary said. He admitted to going to his apartment, retrieving a weapon and returning to the first-floor bureau country and shooting some victims, constabulary said.

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Gateway Village is 1 of 310 communities successful 25 states tally by National Church Residences, which describes itself arsenic “the nation’s largest supplier of affordable elder lodging and services.” Its website says the flat analyzable astir a half-mile (0.8 kilometers) eastbound of Washington includes workplace and one-bedroom units for “seniors property 62+.”

A region website describes the spot arsenic subsidized authorities lodging for seniors with debased incomes.

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